Technology And The Growth Of Civilization
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| Author | : Giancarlo Genta |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2019-09-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3030255832 |
Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans. From domesticated wheat fields to nuclear power plants and spacecraft, everything we see and interact with has in some way been changed by the presence of our species, starting from the Neolithic era so many centuries ago. This book provides a crash course on the issues and debates surrounding technology’s shifting place in our society. It covers the history of our increasingly black-box world, which some theorize will end with technology accelerating beyond our understanding. At the same time, it analyzes competing trends and theories, the lack of scientific knowledge of large sections of the population, the dogmas of pseudoscience, and the growing suspicion of science and technology, which may inevitably lead to scientific stagnation. What will the future of our civilization look like? How soon might scientific acceleration or stagnation arrive at our doorstep, and just how radically will such technological shifts change our culture? These are issues that we must address now, to insure our future goes the way we choose.
| Author | : Arnold Pacey |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2021-08-03 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0262366282 |
The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a "world civilization." Case studies include "technological dialogues" between China and West Asia in the eleventh century, medieval African states and the Islamic world, and the United States and Japan post-1950. It examines railway empires through the examples of Russia and Japan and explores current synergies of innovation in energy supply and smartphone technology through African cases. The book uses the term "technological dialogue" to challenges the top-down concept of "technology transfer," showing instead that technologies are typically modified to fit local needs and conditions, often triggering further innovation. The authors trace these encounters and exchanges over a thousand years, examining changes in such technologies as agriculture, firearms, printing, electricity, and railroads. A new chapter brings the narrative into the twenty-first century, discussing technological developments including petrochemicals, aerospace, and digitalization from often unexpected global viewpoints and asking what new kind of industrial revolution is needed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.
| Author | : Mary A. Vance |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Technology |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Arnold Pacey |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 1991-07-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780262660723 |
Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.
| Author | : Stephen H. Cutcliffe |
| Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
| Total Pages | : 736 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Melvin Kranzberg |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 802 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer.
| Author | : Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2009-02-25 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0199713669 |
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.
| Author | : Charles Joseph Singer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 930 |
| Release | : 2011-10-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781258106485 |
With E. Jaffe, R. H. G. Thomson And J. M. Donaldson. In Eight Volumes. Volume 1, From Early Times To The Fall Of Ancient Empires; Volume 2, The Mediterranean Civilizations And The Middle Ages, Ca. 700 B. C. To A. D. 1500; Volume 3, From The Renaissance To The Industrial Revolution, 1500-1750; Volume 4, The Industrial Revolution 1750-1850; Volume 5, The Late Nineteenth Century, 1850-1900; Volume 6-7, The Twentieth Century, 1900-1950; Volume 8, Consolidated Indexes.
| Author | : Targowski, Andrew |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2008-10-31 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1605660051 |
Latent in the current environment of rapid technological advances are breakthroughs waiting to be discovered that will have profound impacts on how organizations will cope with the direction civilization is taking. Information Technology and Societal Development examines in depth the full range of impacts of information technology on civilization and the development of societies. Uniquely broad in the scope of examining the societal implications of informational technology, this groundbreaking reference work makes an essential contribution to research libraries worldwide.
| Author | : Vaclav Smil |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 2018-11-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0262536161 |
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
